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Re: birding-aus destination of birders in the afterlife

To: "John Leonard" <>, "Harvey Perkins" <>
Subject: Re: birding-aus destination of birders in the afterlife
From: "Brown" <>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 16:37:03 +1000
In response to Harvey's response to John Leonard:

>>... if they've been bad they go to a small oceanic island somewhere in the
>>>doldrums, with no breeding birds at all, and have to study the two
>>species of >beetle found there.
>
>...excuse me, but beetles, particularly ones stuck on isolated islands,
>often show remarkable and interesting adaptations, significantly gigantism
>and/or winglessness/flightlessness...
>
>It wouldn't be all bad.

I totally agree.  Lets not forget it is the insects that provide food to our
birds while plants provide food for the majority of the insects.

Malcolm Brown



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